Mattg4321

They’ll be fine at 32 amps. I’ve seen videos of them tested to far more than that before they start to fall to bits.

This 100%. The inside of a standard meter box doesn’t fit those requirements either, but I’ve seen more than a few 3 phase cutouts fitted in them.

Decent mid range in general.

I disagree with buying the absolute cheapest. There’s lots of carp out there that will start causing problems pretty soon if you fit a house full of them. Why buy the real budget carp, when proven good quality gear is only pennies more. I usually use scolmore click. Fit thousands a year and can’t remember the last failure. Hager is also decent. MK Logic Plus is ok, but overrated and priced. Legrand are decent. Just fit click though is my advice. Very well priced and bulletproof. https://mastertrade.co.uk/scol-cma036-click-cma036-socket-2g-switched-13a-whi.html I’d advise against CEF, unless you like getting tucked up. It’s possible it’s an acronym for Check Every Figure

It’s interesting how it varies. Pre plasterboarding makes sense to me. Check how badly the insulation has been fitted. It was laughable on a job I was on recently. I’ve never heard or seen a BCO checking electrics at any stage. None of them have a clue whatsoever. Perhaps building regs side - part M or holes in joists etc.

As with all extractor fans with a run on timer, you’ll need a permanent live, as well as a switched live supply. Both from the same lighting circuit obviously

Look at the Vent Axia Solo Plus. It can be set up to run as a continuous trickle ventilation, with a boost when the light is switched on. Suitable for longer ducting runs. I would always fit solid ducting if at all possible, with a slight fall to outside.

No problem at all. It’s never been against the regulations and is found in almost every property.

Surely you want a VCL directly behind the plasterboard?

You were extremely lucky.

As above, there’s a good chance there’s no earth continuity to the socket. A cheap plug in tester may or may not flag this up, as they are not really 100% reliable. You may need to get an electrician to check this.

If the work isn’t up to scratch, stuff paying them the full amount.

Diykitchens. Good quality too

You might be onto something there, but nobody in any position of authority is advocating keeping cars for longer than the current average. I suspect they’d rather we kept changing every 3 or 4 years. There’s also the issue of battery longevity, which has yet to really come to the fore. We’ll see how that plays out over the next few years.

I’m not advocating doing nothing, but expect global emissions to carry on rising for a good while yet. Believing we can somehow influence that from our small island is borderline narcissistic. That’s not to say it’s not a laudable thing to try and do. It seems to make a lot of people feel better about themselves if they buy an EV or fit some PV panels, but these things will make no difference imo. Keeping an old diesel car running a while longer probably results in less carbon emissions than a new EV every 3 or 4 years, which some seem to regard as going green!!

What makes you think they’ll take any notice? https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/china-climate-envoy-says-phasing-out-fossil-fuels-unrealistic-2023-09-22/ Adapting to possible future climate change is what we should be doing alongside efforts to reduce carbon emissions. It’s clear there’s no joined up thinking going on and even in the best case scenario carbon emissions on a global level will be well above net zero for many decades yet. It’s fantasy to think otherwise.

French power grid currently over 95% nuclear, meaning we are well over 20%. Either way it doesn’t get away from the fact that renewables are not viable alone currently, and probably not for a period measured in decades.

https://grid.iamkate.com Looks like over 20% nuclear currently, when you take into account France supplying a good chunk of our power requirements. Around a third is fossil fuel and around a third is renewables. We can certainly manage without nuclear, but only if we keep using fossil fuels. At least for a few decades.

If that’s a 400mm wide 600mm deep cupboard that would be a no from me. Poor access to work on it. 500-600mm wide, 300mm deep wall cabinet and I’d probably be ok with it, if fitted to the wall, not the cabinet, and at the bottom of the wall cabinet so access is better. Also not right in the corner of a room so you need to get on top of the work surface to get at it. As above though, it makes sense to relocate it somewhere more sensible at this stage.

Renewables are no good by themselves as often in the winter it can be cold, cloudy, dark and still for weeks on end. So it’s gas, coal or nuclear. Batteries is pie in the sky for decades yet. Hydro doesn’t seem to be viable on a large scale, I’ll admit I’m not sure why. You just posted a map showing France as an outlier in Western Europe with lower carbon emissions, almost certainly down to the amount of nuclear power they have.

It will make no difference whether we lead or not if it doesn’t make economic sense to go green. We really don’t have that much, if any, influence over China, India and the US. We should be doing everything we can that makes sense and passes a cost benefit analysis. A lot of which we are not currently doing, instead virtue signalling or making policy that is profitable for big business. We need to go big on nuclear and renewables so we can shut down fossil fuels without causing the less well off to freeze to death. Along with insulating older buildings and drastically improving standards of new builds.

Depopulation is a problem though as China will shortly find out (although I’m sure they already know what’s coming). It’s probably why we in the west have been ramping up the amount of immigrants coming in. In any case even if it weren’t a problem, what do you do about it, without resorting to authoritarianism - which most people will likely reject. The reality is we can only do our best, and what we in the U.K. do will have no bearing on what the likes of China, India and the US do. If nothing changes there, we’re wasting our time anyway. We should start looking at ways to live with the climate change that might be coming, as well as reducing our carbon output/waste/pollution imo.

Too many people or not enough houses is what it boils down to.

How long would that take to ‘pay back’ in carbon emissions terms though? Huge amounts of carbon are released when manufacturing materials and constructing a new build.

You could fit CCT led strip so you have the option to change it. Costs a bit more though.